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TEDDY BOYS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A British youth subculture that first appeared in the 1950s; mainly from unskilled backgrounds, they adopted a pseudo-Edwardian dress code and rock'n'roll music; proletarian and xenophobic, they were involved in race riots in the United Kingdom
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("teddy boys" is a kind of...):
youth subculture (a minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended largely on the social class and ethnic background of its members; often characterized by its adoption of a particular music genre)
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